Puccini (film)

1953 film

Puccini

French film poster

Directed by| Carmine Gallone
Written by| Leonardo Benvenuti
Carmine Gallone
Glauco Pellegrini
Aldo Bizzarri
Produced by| Antonio Muso
Luigi Rovere
Cinematography| Claude Renoir
Edited by| Rolando Benedetti
Music by| Francesco Molinari Pradelli
Distributed by| Rizzoli Film

Release date

* 29 April 1953 (1953-04-29)

Running time

| 119 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

Puccini  is a 1953 Italian biographical musical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti in the role of Giacomo Puccini.[1]

## Plot

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The film narrates the composer's life full of loves and recklessness, starting from the youthful period in which, after falling in love with Cristina who had helped him achieve success, he convinces Elvira, a mild-mannered girl from the provinces, to follow him to Milan. Elvira soon gives him a son and remains close to him despite her betrayals. Cristina, who has now become a famous soprano, reappears again in the life of the master and tries to distance him from her partner but, after the triumph of La bohème, driven by her gratitude towards Elvira, Giacomo decides to marry her. This does not mean that her infidelities end and Elvira, increasingly alone, decides to separate from her husband. The episode of the suicide of a young maid madly in love with him and the sensational failure of Madama Butterfly upset Puccini's life: Elvira at this point reconciles with him and stays by his side assisting him generously until his death, which occurred from an incurable disease which strikes him during the composition of Turandot.

## Distribution

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The distribution in Italy took place from April 29, 1953; in the same year the film entered the cinema circuit in West Germany and, from the following year, in other countries (in East Germany the film was released in 1955).

In some distributions the title adopted was: Puccini, I lived with art, I lived with love. In France it was distributed under the title: Trois amours de Puccini.

## Cast

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* Gabriele Ferzetti: Giacomo Puccini
* Märta Torén: Elvira Puccini
* Nadia Gray: Cristina Vernini
* Paolo Stoppa: Giocondo
* Myriam Bru: Delia
* Sergio Tofano: Giulio Ricordi
* Mimo Billi: Fanelli
* Silvio Bagolini: Gianni
* Alessandro Fersen: Padre di Delia
* Jacques Famery: Antonio Puccini
* Carlo Duse: Arrigo Boito
* Piero Palermini: Ferdinando Fontana
* Oscar Andriani: Giuseppe Giacosa
* René Clermont: Luigi Illica
* Mario Feliciani: Enrico
* Renato Chiantoni: Filippo Tacchi
* Attilio Dottesio: Sampieri

## References

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1. ^ "Gabriele Ferzetti". Mymovies.it. Retrieved November 30, 2010.

## External links

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* Puccini at IMDb

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Films directed by Carmine Gallone

* Il bacio di Cirano (1913)
* The Naked Truth (1914)
* Senza colpa! (1915)
* Flower of Evil (1915)
* The Wedding March (1915)
* Sotto le tombe (1915)
* Avatar (1916)
* La falena (1916)
* Malombra (1917)
* The Thirteenth Man (1917)
* La storia di un peccato (1918)
* Redemption (1919)
* A Doll Wife (1919)
* The Sea of Naples (1919)
* On with the Motley (1920)
* The Faces of Love (1924)
* The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
* The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
* The City of a Thousand Delights (1927)
* Pawns of Passion (1928)
* Land Without Women (1929)
* Ship in Distress (1929)
* The Singing City (1930)
* City of Song (1931)
* My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
* A Son from America (1932)
* Sailor's Song (1932)
* Going Gay (1933)
* My Heart Calls You (1934)
* Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934)
* My Heart Is Calling You (1934)
* My Heart is Calling (1935)
* Casta Diva (1935)
* If It Were Not for Music (1935)
* The Divine Spark (1935)
* Thank You, Madame (1936)
* Mother Song (1937)
* Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
* Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
* Marionette (1939)
* The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
* Eternal Melodies (1940)
* Love Me, Alfredo! (1940)
* Manon Lescaut (1940)
* Beyond Love (1940)
* The Secret Lover (1941)
* First Love (1941)
* The Two Orphans (1942)
* The Queen of Navarre (1942)
* Odessa in Flames (1942)
* Harlem (1943)
* Sad Loves (1943)
* The Song of Life (1945)
* Biraghin (1946)
* Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
* The Lady of the Camellias (1947)
* The Legend of Faust (1949)
* The Force of Destiny (1950)
* Night Taxi (1950)
* Messalina (1951)
* We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952)
* Fatal Desire (1953)
* Puccini (1953)
* Madame Butterfly (1954)
* House of Ricordi (1954)
* Casta Diva (1954)
* Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)
* Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
* Michel Strogoff (1956)
* Tosca (1956)
* Carthage in Flames (1960)
* Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
* Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
* La monaca di Monza (1962)

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